Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 26, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 84 degrees (1963)

Low temperature: 22 degrees (1942)

Precipitation: 2.18 inches (2019)

Snowfall: 1.9 inches (1957)

1921: Balaban & Katz’s Chicago Theatre opened. It was said to be the largest and finest of its kind in the world with seating for 5,000 people.

The first film shown was silent — “The Sign on the Door” starring Norma Talmadge.

“In early architectural renderings, the theater at 175 N. State St. had been labeled the Ambassador or the Capitol,” the Tribune’s Richard Christiansen wrote in 2001. “ Fortunately, those w

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